Acquisition will Streamline How Companies Share, Govern, and Monetize
Data
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & NANTES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2017--
Talend
(NASDAQ:
TLND), a global leader in cloud
and big
data integration solutions, today announced its acquisition of all
outstanding shares of Restlet SAS, a cloud-based API design and testing
platform. Restlet uses the cloud to provide powerful API design,
documentation, testing and hosting capabilities to developers. Restlet’s
technology will complement Talend
Data Fabric’s existing ability to integrate, transform, govern and
share enterprise data by making it easier for customers to take an
API-first design approach to monetizing and securely sharing information
in real-time with clients and business partners.
“We see several of our customers investing in building cloud data lakes,
but there aren’t many solutions that can help transform and share data
in the lake with external applications,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP,
Products, Talend. “Current API solutions tend to focus exclusively on
app-to-app connectivity versus the transforming, governing and sharing
of data. The addition of Restlet will extend our data integration
platform with API capabilities so customers can share data more
pervasively and optimize performance across their entire value chain.”
Gartner research states, “The requirement of digital business for
converging application and data integration is forcing organizations to
develop more flexible and coherently intertwined integration approaches.”1
Digital business transformation is forcing organizations to increasingly
share data not only across business divisions, but beyond the walls of
their organization. Additionally, in today’s age of increased data
regulations, security breaches, etc., companies need more comprehensive
solutions for sharing data and applications in a secure and governed way.
In addition to helping streamline data sharing, Restlet’s API technology
lends itself to creating new opportunities for Talend customers to
monetize their data. For example, farmers or fertilizer manufacturers
that collect agricultural data can sell that information to commodities
traders who would use it to inform investment decisions. Talend believes
that increasing data volumes and the use of data lakes will help fuel
interest in data monetization across a range of industries.
The Restlet API platform will initially be deployed as part of Talend
Integration Cloud. The combined solution will also include new
support for open source projects such as Swagger and RAML. The combined
solution will be compatible with third-party API gateways, such as
Google Apigee. Later, more of Restlet’s capabilities will be
incorporated into the broader Talend
Data Fabric integration platform.
“A growing number of integration projects follow an API-First strategy,
starting from the consumer needs back to the assets available in the
data lake rather than the other way around,” said Jérôme Louvel,
Founder, Board member and former CTO of Restlet. “APIs and Data are two
sides of the same coin in integration initiatives. We’re very excited to
join Talend in delivering an open source-based and visual solution to
empower a new level of data sharing within and outside an organization.”
Jérôme Louvel is joining Talend along with the 16-member team based in
Nantes, France. For additional insights on the benefits the Restlet
acquisition will bring to Talend customers, read this
blog. Further information on Talend and its complete portfolio of
cloud and big data integration solutions can be found at www.talend.com.
For more details on Restlet’s comprehensive API cloud platform and open
source API framework for the Java platform, visit https://restlet.com/.
About Talend
Talend (NASDAQ:
TLND) is a next-generation leader in cloud and big data integration
software that helps companies turn data into a strategic asset that
delivers real-time, organization-wide insight into customers, partners,
and operations. Through its open, native, and unified integration
platform, Talend delivers the data agility required for companies to
meet the constantly evolving demands of modern business. With Talend,
companies can easily scale their data infrastructure and rapidly adopt
the latest technology innovations in cloud and big data. Talend’s
solutions support over 1500 global enterprise customers including Air
France, GE, and Lenovo, across a range of industries. Talend has also
been recognized as a leader in its field multiple times by leading
analyst firms, as well as several industry and data trade publications
including InfoWorld and SD Times. For more information, please visit www.talend.com
and follow us on Twitter: @Talend.
1 Gartner, Inc. “Converging Data and Application
Integration: A Step Toward Pervasive Integration Using a Hybrid
Integration Platform,” Eric Thoo, Keith Guttridge, Elizabeth Golluscio,
18 August 2017.

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